Former safety at SMU. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
6′0″ · 190 lb · Placentia, CA
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
The story
Former safety at SMU. Career stats, games and honors on CFB Zeitgeist.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearDavaughn Celestine
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Two head coaches in four seasons, at two different programs. The receipt: 4 tackles against Pittsburgh — Week 10, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at SMU, 80 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Jim Leavitt → Rhett Lashlee. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (7th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rhett Lashlee
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | SMU | 14 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | San Diego State | 21 | 11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | San Diego State | 42 | 35 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | San Diego State | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 80 | 57 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 4 | 1 | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 59-7vs Houston Christian | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 15-18vs BYU | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 66-42vs TCU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 40-10@ Stanford | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-27@ Duke | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 48-25vs Pittsburgh | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 14 | W 38-6vs California | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 10-38@ Penn State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 14 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
14 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Jarred Kerr’s 2023 season.
Matches Jarred on
Differs from Jarred on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Cecil Powell's junior season at Troy (2024).
Matches Cecil on
Player DNA